"Waiting on" Wednesday: The Guineveres

In the vein of The
Virgin Suicides, a dazzling debut novel about four girls inexplicably
named Guinevere, all left by their parents to be raised by nuns, and the
year in which their tightly knit Guinevere family implodes when four
comatose soldiers arrive.

Vere, Gwen, Ginny, and Win come to The
Sisters of the Supreme Adoration by different paths, delivered into the
rigorous and austere care of Sister Fran. Each has their own
complicated, heartbreaking story that they safeguard. But together they
are the all powerful and confident The Guineveres, bound by the
extraordinary coincidence of their names and girded against the
indignities of their plain, sequestered lives. Together, they learn
about God, history, and, despite the nuns' protestations, sex. They
learn about the saints whose revival stories of faith and pain are
threaded through their own. But above all, they plot their futures, when
they can leave the convent and finally find a true home. But when four
comatose soldiers, casualties of the War looming outside, arrive at the
convent, The Guineveres’ friendship is tested in ways they never could
have foreseen.

In The Guineveres, Sarah Domet navigates the
wonder and tumult of girlhood, the families we yearn for and create. In
prose shot through with beauty, Domet intertwines the ordinary and the
miraculous, as The Guineveres discover what home really means. - from Goodreads

6 comments:

There is something about this book is so compelling, I think the connection between the girls most of all. Here's mine: http://editingeverything.com/blog/2016/09/21/waiting-wednesday-norse-mythology-neil-gaiman/